The Soviet Union (USSR) supplied North Vietnam, and the US fought for South Vietnam.
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The United States did get involved in the Vietnam war because of communism in Vietnam.
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Red China, North Korea, Cuba, and of course North Vietnam & for the other side, France, UK, Canada, etc.
In the cold war there was never any fighting but the countries that were involved were Russia, America and Cuba. Some have confused the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 with the Cold War. It was a part of the Cold War but not nearly all of it. And there was a great deal of fighting in countries like Greece, Korea, Angola, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Afghanistan and many other places. The global superpowers could not fight directly and keep the Cold War cold, so they fought smaller wars by proxy, used propaganda, espionage, arms escalation, and all methods short of direct warfare.Countries involved in the Cold War were mainly the United States and the Soviet Union, but also China, North and South Korea and Germany.
The Vietnam war was a warm part of the cold war.